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Global Forum for Chinese Political Scientists
DR. QUANSHENG ZHAO
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Quansheng Zhao is Professor of international relations and Director of Center for Asian Studies at American University in Washington, DC; serving as Director of the Division of Comparative and Regional Studies for three terms (1999-2008). He is Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University. He is also Guest Professor at Beijing University and Qinghua University in China and Korea University in Korea, and Coordinator for the Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists. In fall 2008, he is a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University, in Kyoto, Japan. Professor Zhao received his B.A. from Beijing University, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
A specialist in comparative politics and international relations focusing on East Asia, Dr. Zhao is the author of Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, winner of the Best Academic Book Award by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea), and Japanese Policymaking (Oxford University Press/Praeger, selected as "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice). He is editor of Future Trends in East Asian International Relations (Frank Cass), and co-editor of Managing the China Challenge: Perspectives from the Globe (Routledge). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Professor Zhao has previously taught at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at Old Dominion University. He has held several distinguished year-long research and teaching positions: Japan Foundation Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo, Pacific Basin Research Fellow at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii. He has also been invited to conduct short-term research and teaching (ranging from two weeks to three months) in Japan (Aoyama, Shimane, Soka, Chuo, and Utsunomiya Universities), China (Fudan U.), Korea (Korea U.), Hong Kong (City U.), Singapore (NUS), and Europe (Oxford U., Stockholm U., and European Institute of Japanese Studies). .
Dr. Zhao has been Series Editor of “Comparative Perspectives in Modern Asia” for Palgrave (St. Martin's Press), and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Strategic Studies, China Review, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, Journal of Contemporary China, and Journal of Chinese Political Science. He has served as a member of annual peer review advisory panels for fellowships and research grants for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Security Education Program, the Fulbright Program, and as an International Juror for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, as well as an external academic examiner for the City University of Hong Kong and National Chengchi University in Taipei. He has also testified on China’s development at the U. S. Congress.
(Above Picture: Professor Zhao and President Zhihong Xu of Beijing University)
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